Session 51: Calling Keller

General Summary

The party meets up at the Eschbach Shields. There, Archi runs off to rework Rab's Adamant Shield, turning it into a glove -like form shaped like a purple worm eating his hand & arm. Rab also goes to get a fancy metal chest plate from the Ludger Forge.

At the same time, Druidess Emma Duckthorne is in the tavern and gets introduced to Keller, and she takes him to show him round the Grove. Reolus is also in the corner watching, being kinda creepy.

Keller is introduced to Slythra the green dragon wymling, along with the wyvern & gryphon. She tells him that he is able to use the grove at any time and if he wants he could become a permanent member of the grove too if he so wishes. He does ask if they could provide him a yew magic staff. Emma agrees and sets about getting him the right staff.

Emma mentions she is also waiting for a couple of men to appear that have corresponded with her.

They shortly arrive and are called Josef and Alcuin, and have weapons & equipment marked with Cyrillic script for the protection against and to damage dark creatures & forces.

Emma asks Keller to take them to the Eschbach Shields to get settled in and to talk to the party.

They all meet back up in the Eschbach Shields and the other two are introduced. They are interested in the Vampiric Wyrm killed by Magnar and the party, along with all manner of shenanigans around Eschbach.

The party decides they want to go to the plateau where the purple worm lives to see about getting more adamantine.

They travel there, and Keller casts Move Without Trace and they slip down into the tunnels staying within 30 feet of Keller.

After getting down, they find a couple of hatched eggs, and the young likely drove off by the adult worm in the region to find their own hunting grounds. After this they travel down into an 80 feet long, and a 40 feet wide chamber with two other tunnels, one heading north and one to the east. The northern one has been burrowed out by a purple worm and the other has stalactites & stalagmites and dripping water at it's entrance.

They move quietly and Rab notices metallic ore traces on the ground.

Arne is the first to notice that the eastern cave entrance is closed, and points it out to Magnar.

Magnar & Archi lights up torches and then Keller notices the closed cavern entrance. They all notice it is now coloured purple.

Rab throws a javelin hitting it and it sticks. It also moves proving that it is the purple worm.

They get into a fight with the worm, where Magnar starts doing some damage, and losing his Sword of Michael while trying to get to the rest of the party. Getting stung badly, bit then swallowed by the worm Magnar is temporarily unable to do anything.

Archi, being a big hearted but low wisdom hero dives into the mouth of the worm to try to save Magnar.

The rest start doing a good amount of damage with Arne missing with an Eldritch Blast that flies down the throat of the worm hitting Archi.

The worm does some biting & stinging on Arne who manages to survive it, and then they hit it h combat.

After that Magnar tries to stab the worm from the inside doing nothing but hitting Arch.

The worm starts digesting the two and Archi sadly dies due to this.

They eventually kill the worm and the trapped two falls out, and they start to bring Archi back to life.

Examining the ore and it is adamantine. Archi does gets 11 scales and a pint of stomach acid from the worm.

They realise that it will be decades if not a century before another purple worm rises in the area. They go back to town and Rab gets the Forge to start making armour out of the adamantine, and a bit is given to Archi.

At the same time Archi makes 50 poison vials out of the acid keeping the other half for later.

Rewards Granted

10 lb of adamantine ore, pint of purple worm acid, and 11 purple worm scales.